Pips_Paradise wrote:
Personally, and just my humble opinion I would like to have seen a more mature understanding from the off, a more sensitive attitude, but locking the thread was justified at the time, however this doesn?t necessary mean that the thread should remain locked indefinitely, and perhaps reading some of members responses, there seems an universal acceptance that this was a ?fun? thread, I wish I can understand this point of view but I cannot, after debating this topic with family and friends, they too feel I overreacted and put far too much weight on strangers opinions on internet forums.

Ever since I can remember I have never been a fan of breasts, or, as I called them when I was little, bosoms. I longed for the arrival of my own, and put socks down the front of my vest so that I could see how they might look.
When I drew female figures I used to pencil in a "u" on each side of the chest and put a dot in the middle of the u. I told people they were pockets, but no one was fooled. I may have been so interested because I was breast-fed, but I don't think so.

Like all the other young owners of chests without breasts, I looked long and hard at the bare-breasted women especially on holiday in Nice France , wondering if I was destined to have the long pointy kind or the round kind, hoping I wouldn't end up with the kind that had huge nipples and not much else.

Photographs of the real thing were far more satisfactory than breasts in art, which were usually small, pale, understated lumps.

I think that breasts have lost their charisma. Where once "boobs" were a secret waiting to be revealed, now double welts of marbled flesh propped up by balcony bras are pushed at you by waitresses, and receptionists of all ages, and in all states of scrawny, bloat, and freckle- and wrinkle-dom.

Where once you would have blushed to display a bra strap, dresses are cut so low that the bra and its bulging overspill are on permanent display.

Now that you can buy them, bosoms are over.

May be it?s the "ladette" culture that admiring glances, have been replaced by slobbering.

This Guardian issue is the latest research into the ladette phenomenon, if phenomenon is the correct description
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2006/jan/23/pupilbehaviour.schools